Arrr! See CONTENTS for links to the 125 chapters of The Monstaville Memoirs plus introductions, conclusions, postscripts and appendices. This treasure trove also includes a collection of articles offering further insights into the themes explored in the trilogy. Namely, managing suffering and conflict (dealing with hostile people if you are nervous, sensitive or shy) and learning not to react

Sunday, 27 March 2016

Janeway: This is Kathryn Janeway. I’ve never liked saying good bye, so I’ll
make this brief, but I want you all to know that serving as your
captain has been the
most extraordinary experience of my life. No captain could ask more
than what this crew has given. Bravery, compassion and strength of
character. But I
think what I’ll miss most is the fun. The times we joked together,
the games on the holodeck. I’ll remember the laughter more than
anything. Although
Commander Chakotay and I won’t be with you for the rest of your
journey, we know that you’ll be the same steadfast crew for Mister Tuvok
as you have been
for us. We wish you a safe and a speedy journey home. Our thoughts
will be with you. Janeway out.

Tuvok: Thank you, Captain, Commander. I am sure I speak for the entire
crew when I say we will always remember your grace and courage. And I
would like to add,
it has been an honour serving with you. Live long and prosper.

“Don’t hold on to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.” - Leo Buscaglia.

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

“Always be kinder than you feel.” – Unknown.

“One. Do not promise when you’re happy.
Two. When you are angry, do not respond.
Three. Do not decide when you’re sad.”

- Unknown (tumblr post).

“Great souls suffer in silence.” - Friedrich Schiller.

“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get
impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t
get desperate or blow
a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready
to come undone. You have to figure it’s going to be a long process and
that you’ll work
on things slowly, one at a time.” - Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood).

“The greatest weapon anyone can use against us is our own mind, by
preying on the doubts and uncertainties that already lurk there.” -
Emily Thorne ( Revenge).

“The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can
grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The
only way we can
learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is
if we throw ourselves into the open.” – C. Joybell.

“When suffering is on all sides and man hungers for the unmanifested mystery in all phenomena, He seeks reflection of the Divine. God’s higher truths are cloaked in his creation and the message is in the stars.” - Nostradamus.

“When the chips are down, man will avoid the effort of solving the immediate pressing problems by pointless reflection on larger unquantifiable theories. This is called ‘prevarication.’” - Richard Caukill.

Love is crazy baby, I can see it in your eyes.
Your kisses taste the same,
But it's just a sweet disguise.
Ain't that just like you,
To worry about me.
But we promised to be honest
With each other for all eternity.
So if you're looking for a way out
I won't stand here in your way.
And if you're looking for a way out:

Don't look at the tears that I'm crying
They'll only make you wanna stay.
Don't kiss me again coz I'm dying
To keep you from running away.
(run away,run away,run away,run away,run away, run away)

Oh baby tell me I'm wrong
Just say I'm crazy
It's with you that I belong.
It's never easy when lovers have to part.
Oh come on stop pretending
Tell me what's in you heart.
And if you're looking for a way out
I won't stand here in your way.
But if you're looking for a way out:

Don't look at the tears that I'm crying
They'll only make you wanna stay.
Don't kiss me again coz I'm dying
To keep you from running away.

Don't look at the tears that I'm crying
They'll only make you wanna stay.
Don't love me again coz I'm tryin'
To keep you from running away.
(baby don't run away, baby don't run away)

Wednesday, 23 March 2016

“Now there is more to be said about vibrations. The vibratory levels of sound affect mental, emotional, physical and spiritual bodies positively or negatively. Noise jolts your entire energy system. Noise from a gunshot, car backfiring or thunder, for instance, has a short-lived impact; noise from an evening of raucous or dissonant music, for example, or a day of working with roaring machinery has exponentially longer lasting and more adverse effects.

When that kind of noise is unavoidable, its effects can be somewhat ameliorated with as much solitude and serenity as the affected persons can manage. The soft, gentle tones of melodious music, the sound of flowing waters and the energetic emanations of trees are extremely restorative and helpful in regaining the light within balance.

In addition to the sound of words, the words themselves have vibrations. Loving words spoken sweetly by parents to their children are nurturing and assist them in achieving balance. Conversely, not only does yelling harsh words to children—to anyone!—destroy their balance and the balance of the ones who yell, but when their thoughts of those instances come as memories, the low vibrations return too. Although with less intensity, written words also emit vibrations, so choose your words carefully to benefit those to whom you write and yourself, and select reading material that will lighten your heart and mind.

It is your high vibrations that are connecting you with kindred spirits and causing reluctance to spending time with some individuals, whose vibrations are low. When the latter kind of encounter can’t be avoided, keeping your thoughts positive will enable you to stay balanced, and the light within will help raise the vibrations all around."

Woo-wooooooo Woo!
In the name of pain!
(In the name of pain and suffering)
In the name of pain!
(In the name of pain and suffering)
There comes a train!
(There comes a train)
Yeah!
A long black train
(There comes a train)
Lord, a long black train

Woo-woo! Woo-woo!

Punched from the tunnel
(The tunnel of love is long and lonely)
Engines steaming like a fist
(A fistful of memories)
Into the jolly jaw of morning
(Yeah! O yeah!)
O baby it gets smashed!
(You know that it gets smashed)
O baby it gets smashed!
(You know that it gets smashed)

I kick every goddamn splinter
Into all the looking eyes in the world
Into all the laughing eyes
Of all the girls in the world
Oooooo-woooooh
She ain't never comin back
She ain't never comin back
She ain't never comin back
She ain't never comin back
And the name of the pain is...
And the name of the pain is...
And the name of the pain is...
And the name of the pain is...
The name of the pain is
A train long-suffering

On rails of pain
(On rails of pain and suffering)
There comes a train
(There comes a train long-suffering)
On rails of pain
(On rails of pain and suffering)
O baby blow its whistle in the rain

Woo-oo Woo! Woo-oo Woo!

Who's the engine driver?
(The engine drivers over yonder)
His name is Memory
(His name is Memory)
O Memory is his name
(Woooooo-wo!)
Destination: Misery
(Pain and misery)
O pain and misery
(Pain and misery)
O pain and misery
Hey! Hey!
(Pain and misery)
Hey! That's a sad lookin sack!
Oooh that's a sad lookin sack!
And the name of the pain is...
And the name of the pain is...
Ooh the name of the pain is
A train long-suffering

There is a train!
(It's got a name)
Yeah! It's a train long-suffering
O Lord a train!
(A long black train)
Lord! Of pain and suffering
Each night so black
(O yeah! So black)
And in the darkness of my sack
I'm missing you baby
(I'm missing you)
And I just dunno what to do
(dunno what to do)
(Train long-suffering)
(Train long-suffering)
(Train long-suffering)
(Train long-suffering)
O she ain't never comin back
O she ain't never comin back
O she ain't never comin back
O she ain't never comin back
And the name of the pain is...
And the name of the pain is...
The name of the train is...
The name of the train is
Pain and suffering

“It is dangerous to
be concerned with what others think of you.” - Proverbs 29:25.

“I like living. I
have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with
sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive
is a grand thing.” - Agatha Christie.

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of
happiness.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"To harm another, is to harm
ones self." – Socrates.

"Love your brother like your
soul, guard him like the pupil of your eye." – Jesus (The Gospel of Thomas).

”A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to
avoid it.” - Jean de La Fontaine, Fables.

“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked
and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the
greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of
poverty.” – Mother Theresa.

"A broken friendship, like a
broken cup, can be mended but it will never be perfect again." — Anon.

"Some people think to be strong is to never feel pain.
In reality, it’s the strongest people who feel it, understand it, and accept
it." – Unknown.

"Silence is the best reply to a fool." - Imam Ali.

"Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realised that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last." - René
Descartes (Meditations on First
Philosophy).

“… and later lo and
behold it turned out to be Goethe who wrote a book about how foolish it was to
be born and scores of German youths committed suicide after reading it and when
I tried to read it to see whether I would feel like committing suicide I couldn’t
get interested so here I am alive and in circulation.” – Carl Sandburg to
Thomas Hornsby Ferril, 22 May 1951.

Friday, 18 March 2016

“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t
even recognise that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy
and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we
stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the
process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were
before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the
weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its
way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what
is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening…Those long periods when
something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure
about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for,
for it is in those periods that we realise that we are being prepared for the
next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality
is about to be revealed.” - Alice Walker.

“Strong souls aren't just
born. They
are built by forging through the most challenging perils in life and still
having the ability to shine.“ – Anon.

“The moment you
feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely
and utterly walk away.” – Unknown.

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low
self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by
assholes.” – Sigmund Freud.

"Live not in ignorance. Do not
waste your precious life span in differentiating and judging your fellow men,
but learn to long for the love of God. Even in the midst of your worldly
activities, live only to find and realise your true Identity with your Beloved
God.Be pure and simple, and love all because all are one.
Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself." - Meher
Baba.

“The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well,
the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveller saying ‘anywhere but
here.’” - E.E. Cummings.

“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do
you learn.” - C.S Lewis.

“Not everyone will
be happy at your success nor will everyone be saddened by your loss so be
careful whom you share your personal matters with.” - Mufti Ismail Menk.

“Truth has no path.
Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without
demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know
oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no
frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.” - Bruce
Lee.

“Patience is not the ability to wait, but
how you act while you’re waiting.” – Anonymous.

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out
of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” - Thich Nhat
Hanh.

“Knowing your power
is what creates humility. Not knowing you power is what creates insecurity.” -
Unknown.

Wednesday, 16 March 2016

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is
yours."- Wayne W. Dyer.

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be
defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can
know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” - Maya
Angelou.

"I lived with a bug for 17 years. Everyone hated this
bug and said it was no good and bad. It had no eyes, no ears and lived its life
on feeling, alone in the dark, no help, no claws, no fangs, no defenses. A
helpless little bug. I watched it and thought how this life form can find any
joy, why this life would want to live. I learned more from that bug than I did
from my whole life before. I fell in love with another life form. That bug
could feel what I thought. I set for ten years with no books, no TV, no radio,
nothing but a candle making things with strings and toilet paper.” — Charles
Manson (Bug Letter).

“Someone asked, ‘Why is there
suffering?’ [Meher] Baba gave this succinct reply: ‘Suffering is essential for
the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub
in order to wash the stain from my coat.’" - Unkown.

"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting
most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely
because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what
could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the
world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in
us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are." - Fernando
Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.

“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he
fears.” – Michel De Montaigne.

“Behind every
exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” - Oscar Wilde.

"The world hasn’t stopped moving. Out there, people are still talking to each other face-to-face, exchanging ideas and turning each other on. Art houses are showing films, people are drinking coffee and telling tall tales, women and men are confusing each other and record stores are selling disks full of soul that you haven’t felt yet." - Jack White.

"We all have dark periods in our lives. We all face difficulties that seem insurmountable. We all encounter setbacks. And when we do, we’re often tempted to throw in the towel. Most philosophers have tried to help us reduce the amount that we suffer. They have offered consoling advice on how to make the pain go away. But there was one philosopher with a far more bracing take on the subject. Friedrich Nietzsche believed that all varieties of suffering and failure would to be welcomed by anyone seeking happiness. We should regard them as tough challenges to be overcome, in the same way as a climber might tackle a mountain. Almost alone among philosophers, he thought it as an advantage to have serious reversals in life." - Alain De Botton, Nietzsche on Hardship.

“Be thankful for the bad
things in life. For they open your eyes to the good things you weren't paying
attention to before.” - Unknown.

Monday, 14 March 2016

“Do the scary thing first, and get scared
later.” - Lemony Snicket (When Did
You See Her Last?).

“Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to
me.” - Bob Marley.

“We must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not
just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to
exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is.” - Gary
Snyder, Poet.

"Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you
dwell will define your struggle." - Dodinsky.

“You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what
you stop, and what you reinforce.” - Tony Gaskins.

“Nurture life; Walk in love and
beauty; Trust the knowledge that comes through the body; Speak the truth about
conflict, pain, and suffering; Take only what you need; Think about the
consequences of your actions for seven generations; Approach the taking of life
with great restraint; Practice great generosity; Repair the web.” - Carol P.
Christ.

Important topic

Did you know that this is the 12th and lowest universe in our multiverse and that it is founded on the energies of fear and suffering which were not resolved in the 11th?

Karma & Emotions

This e-book explores the opportunity for releasing deep emotional blockages from the past that crisis presents and the notion that this process of self-healing is an essential aspect of spiritual ascension (click the picture for more info & free pdf download)

What is, is; how we react is up to us!

"Life is 10 percent of what you make it and 90 percent of how you take it." - Irving Berlin.

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Born on 25 November 1965 and currently living in Yorkshire, England. I write songs and books and have a website that serves as a platform for my work as well as being an Ascension resource. The Treasure Chest displays all chapters of The Monstaville Memoirs trilogy as well as further insights from various sources relating to the themes of these books. The Powerlessness of Now reveals the many ways in which we have given our power away to the Establishment through its web of control.

“Someone asked, ‘Why is there suffering?’ [Meher] Baba gave this succinct reply: ‘Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.’" - Unkown.

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